Yea on Gamefaqs.com they list the game like this in each territory:
Release Data

Daxter SCEA 03/14/06 US
Daxter SCEE 04/13/06 EU
Daxter SCEE 04/28/06 AU
Daxter (Greatest Hits) SCEA 2007 US
Daxter (Platinum) SCEE 05/04/07 EU

No Japanese release date.

Its not even listed on Wikipedia as being released in Japan. I think like everyone else said. With the lack of the previous 2 Jak and Daxters. I think it put a bad taste in the publics mouth and the Japanese just really didn't care for that series.

 THX for info. There was no point in releasing Daxter in Japan. They are racist and ignore western games no matter how they might be.

You got that right, they are biased to American games, seriously! But who cares that's their market. I have the American market.

Did you even look at the Crash Bandicoot numbers? Or even GTA or Ratchet & Clank sales for that matter. Does that look anti-American to you?

Just 2 games? Come on think about it?

GTA did well , but far as good as in the US . ratchet Didi surprisingly well and was the first western game PS2 bundle in Japan ... why is that ? Many say that Ratchet has Japanese eyes and thats why :P

You know why? SCEJ made Ismoniac Games or whatever how you spell there name to change their eyes so the game can attract the Japanese.

Insomniac is the name , and I double checked the rumors , and it semas that it could be true :P

First Ratchet sold well (around 580k) because it was bundled with PS2. So it gives you this false impression that people actually went there and bought that game specifically. It is something similar to Motorstorm bundle in US. 20k every week since bundle was released, before that more like 5k if not less(cant check now). So conclusion is, first game sold well because of the bundle. Second sold 250k in Japan -50% without bundle and with bigger install base. And third sold 310k with biggest install base at that time even that is not so good.

So all this talk how Japanese like "some" and than using Ratchet games as example...i mean how pathetic is that?

Forza 2 is good example. Japanese love driving simulations and probably second best driving simulation after GT sold only 40k with install base of 440k 360 sold in Japan!? It didn't move units, not one bit.

Yes they are racist and ego tripped. Just listen to latest 1Up podcast where Ryan Payton(works for Konami) talk a little about this phenom that Japanese don't like western games.